Philbrick and Marvin

Through her mother, Ruth Marvin, Sarah Ann (Philbrick) Hatten (1831-1882), wife of Ralph Hatten and mother of Thomas J. Hatten, descended from the Marvins of Lyme, Connecticut, and through them from Rev. Richard Mather of Dorchester and Elder William Brewster of the Mayflower. Reinold Marvin of Great Bentley, Essex, followed his brother Matthew to Hartford in 1638 and settled at last on the east side of the river at Saybrook, which became Lyme; his wife Marie's death in 1661 was blamed on witchcraft. His son Lieut. Reinold commanded Lyme's train-band and sat for the town through King Philip's War, and Lieut. Reinold's son Capt. Reinold, "Lyme's Captain," by family tradition nailed his banns to the meeting-house door in rhyme. Capt. Reinold's son Capt. Elisha Marvin, a short, athletic man with a powerful voice, married in 1739 Catharine Mather, a granddaughter of Rev. Moses Noyes, Lyme's first minister, and a great-great-granddaughter of Rev. Richard Mather. Her family, with the Noyeses, the Wises of Roxbury and the Brewsters of the Mayflower, is the Mather and Noyes line.

Elisha and Catharine's grandson Pickett Marvin, who bore as his given name the surname of Catharine's grandmother Ruth Pickett, went west as a young man. He lived at Fort Harmar, by Marietta, through the Indian war of the 1790s, married Polly Warth, of a Virginia family of hunters and rangers, and settled in Gallia County, where he was a magistrate and in 1809-10 its member in the Ohio House; in 1819 he took his family to Bloomfield Township, Jackson County. Ruth Marvin, born at Letart on the Ohio in 1802, was very probably his daughter. In 1818 she married Benjamin Philbrick, born in Maine as the Ancestry tree has it; widowed by 1834, she married George Washington Rice and then William Cheeseman, and in her mid-fifties went on to Minnesota Territory. Sarah Ann, probably her daughter, married Ralph Hatten in Jackson County in 1847 and followed her to Minnesota, where mother and daughter lie in Red Rose Cemetery, Waterford, Dakota County, with Ralph.

The line at a glance

• Marvin: Reinold Marvin (bp. 1594-1662), of Great Bentley and Lyme = Marie > Lieut. Reinold Marvin (bp. 1631-1676) = Sarah Clark > Capt. Reinold Marvin (1669-1737) = Martha Waterman > Capt. Elisha Marvin (1717/18-1801) = Catharine Mather (1717/18-1799) > Capt. Timothy Marvin (1744-1808) = Sarah Perkins > Pickett Marvin (1768-1853) = Polly Warth > Ruth Marvin (1802-1891) = Benjamin Philbrick (1791-bef. 1834) > Sarah Ann Philbrick (1831-1882) = Ralph Hatten (1815-1895) > Thomas J. Hatten (1850-1924).
• Philbrick: Benjamin Philbrick's parents are not known.

The scope walks every ancestor of Sarah Ann Philbrick. Her husband's side is the Hatten line, which stops at her. It stops in turn at Catharine Mather, whose family is the Mather and Noyes line; through it the Hattens meet the Lows, at Joseph Wise and Mary Tompson of Roxbury.

How sure it is

The two links at the foot of the line carry everything above them (Notable connections of Patricia Hatten (1940-2009): the paternal Hatten line, "Read this first"):

• Sarah Ann to Benjamin Philbrick and Ruth Marvin: inferred, probable. Benjamin and Ruth are the only Philbricks in the Jackson County marriages of 1816-1866 besides Sarah Ann herself (Hixon's index; Ruth's second marriage, in 1834, is as "Ruth Philbricks"). Mother and daughter later lived and were buried in the same Minnesota neighbourhood, and a probable elder sister, Parmelie (Philbrick) Howell, born in Ohio in 1820, lived at Green Vale, Dakota County. No record yet names Sarah Ann's parents. Her birth at Liberty, Fairfield County, and her death at Northfield are the Ancestry tree's (possible); there is a Liberty Township in Jackson County too. Her marriage to Ralph Hatten on 1 July 1847 is documented and proven, and Thomas J. Hatten as their son is probable.
• Ruth to Pickett Marvin and Polly Warth: inferred, probable, and the key weak link. The case is circumstantial: Pickett was the Marvin of Letart, where Ruth was born; he was a magistrate in Gallia County, where she married; his family moved to Bloomfield Township in 1819, where she and Benjamin were living by 1820. No record names her as his daughter, and the Marvin genealogy (1904) names only his son Timothy. Polly Warth was Pickett's wife; whether she was the mother of all his children is not known.
• Pickett to Capt. Timothy Marvin and Sarah Perkins: compiled, probable. Two compilations from the Lyme records, the Marvin genealogy and Salisbury (1892), list him among Capt. Timothy's children and follow him to Ohio, and the Ohio House roll of 1809-10 has "Pickett Marvin, Gallia."
• The Lyme Marvins: compiled, probable at each step, from the Marvin genealogy, which works from the Lyme records (the research report rates the chain proven). Lieut. Reinold's parents are documented and proven: his baptism at Great Bentley and his father's will of 1662, "Unto my son Renold Marvin I giue my house and all my lands."
• Benjamin Philbrick: his birth at Whitefield, Maine, in 1791 is the tree's (possible), and that the Maine Benjamin and the Ohio husband are one man is the compilers' assumption. Chapman's Philbrick genealogy (1886) has no Benjamin born in December 1791. A descent from Thomas Philbrick of Hampton is likely in general, but no line exists, so no Philbrick generations are brought in.

Catharine Mather's own ancestry, and how sure each step of it is, are on the Mather and Noyes line's page.

Between this line and the later Hattens stands the Hatten line's own weak step, Ralph A. Hatten (1872) as the son of Thomas J. Hatten (possible; see Ralph A. Hatten).

Left out: the Norwalk Marvins, Matthew Marvin's line, are not this family; Calvin Marvin of Letart, a juror, was a different man from Pickett's brother Calvin, who went to New York and Michigan; Capt. Reinold's first wife, Phebe Lee, the bride of the rhyme, is not an ancestor, since this line comes from his second marriage, to Martha Waterman. No famous Philbricks have a line here.

Open questions

• Was Ruth Marvin Pickett Marvin's daughter? His estate (Jackson County probate, 1853) or the 1818 Gallia County marriage record should say.
• Sarah Ann's parents: the 1880 census (her parents' birthplaces), or her death or burial record.
• Benjamin Philbrick's parents: the "Maine Births and Christenings" entry for Benjamin Philbrook, 1791.
• Sarah Ann's birthplace: Liberty Township in Fairfield County or in Jackson County.
• Ruth's death, 1891 (the tree) or 1897 (WikiTree).
• When Pickett Marvin married Polly Warth, and Polly's dates and mother.